Considering the growing demand for data analytics skills across industries now is an excellent time to begin your learning journey in this field. Fortunately, YouTube provides an abundance of free courses to help you start or improve your data analytics skills. In this article, I will provide nine highly recommended YouTube courses that delve into subjects such as Python, SQL, Excel, visualisation, and more.

Data Analytics with Python for Excel Users – FreeCodeCamp (5 hours)

This comprehensive course takes you through step-by-step tutorials on data analysis for Excel users and other key skills for data analysts. It’s a great starting point for total beginners.

Data Analytics Bootcamp – Alex the Analyst (6 hours)

Learn pivot tables, formulas, dashboards, and other functionalities of that will make you a pro at analyzing data.

Data Visualization using Pandas and Plotly – Data Science Dojo (1 hour)

To create great data visualization you need to understand and learn the art of data visualizations.

Big Data & Hadoop Full Course – Edureka (8 hours)

This Edureka Big Data & Hadoop Full Course video will help you understand and learn Hadoop concepts in detail. Learn concepts like distributed systems, MapReduce, HDFS, and tools like Pig, Hive for big data analytics.

Power BI Tutorial From Beginner to Pro – PowerBIPro (4 hours)

This Complete Power BI Tutorial takes you Step-by-Step as you use Power BI Desktop to create a beautiful Power BI Dashboard. Master Microsoft’s business intelligence and visualization tool to create insightful reports/dashboards.

Tableau Basics Full Course Tutorial – LearnIt Training (6+ hours)

This course is for Data Analysts, Business Intelligence pros, and anyone who works with Big Data on a regular basis. Pick up Tableau skills for fast and easy data visualization and dashboarding.

Statistics for Data Science -MarinStatsLectures (4 hours)

Introduction to Statistics tutorials, teaching statistical concepts covered in many intro and intermediate statistics course. Understand statistical concepts like probability, hypothesis testing, regression modeling and more.

SQL Tutorial – Full Database Course – FreeCodeCamp (4 hours)

The course is designed for beginners to SQL and database management systems, and will introduce common database management topics. Learn databases, SQL querying, joins, normalization and more in this extensive SQL course.

Machine Learning Tutorial Python – Sentdex (5 hours)

The objective of this course is to give you a holistic understanding of machine learning, covering theory, application, and inner workings of supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning algorithms. Grasp core machine learning concepts and implement models like linear regression, random forests, neural nets etc.